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Nations Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr

56 Nations quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr

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Martin Luther King Jr. notes that Asian and African nations are racing toward independence while other places lag behind. He says revenge solves no social problems and that labor movements strengthen, rather than weaken, a country. He also stresses that all nations depend on each other and must care for humanity as a whole.

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I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be.

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Perhaps...the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

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I have a dream... I have a dream today... And if America is to be a great nation this must become true.

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Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist? - "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free."

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Ultimately a great nation is a compassionate nation.

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Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual…

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Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your…

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We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation and for those it calls…

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Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a greater person of yourself,…

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To have peace in the world, men & nations must embrace the nonviolent assertion that ends and means must cohere.

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The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

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The nations of Asia and Africa are moving with jetlike speed toward the goal of political independence, and we still creep at…

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Even if our motives are presently misunderstood. We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because…

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Curtailment of free speech is rationalized on grounds that a more compelling American tradition forbids criticism of the government when the nation…

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We are challenged to develop a world perspective. No individual can live alone, no nation can live alone, and anyone who feels…

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I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must…

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I still have a dream today that one day war will come to an end, that men will beat their swords into…

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I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of thermonuclear…

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Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. ...…

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Let us rise up tonight with a greater readiness. Let us stand with a greater determination. And let us move on in…

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All men are interdependent. Every nation is an heir of a vast treasury of ideas and labor to which both the living…

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A time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. A nation that continues year…

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The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever recurring song of retaliation. The oceans of history are…

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In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent…

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As long as there is poverty in the world I can never be rich, even if I have a billion dollars. As…

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One day the South will know that when these disinherited children of God sat down at lunch counters, they were in reality…

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We have no honorable intentions in Vietnam. Our minimal expectation is to occupy it as an American colony and maintain social stability…

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Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic…

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Somehow this madness must cease. We must stop now. I speak as a child of God and brother to the suffering poor…

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It is our experience that the nation doesn't move around questions of genuine equality for the poor and for black people until…

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I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We…

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But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in…

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Whatever my doubts, however heavy the burden, I feel that I must accept the task of helping to make this nation and…

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In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History…

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It is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice,…

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Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate…

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We can no longer afford to worship the God of hate or bow before the altar of retaliation. The oceans of history…

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Somehow we must transform the dynamics of the world power struggle from the negative nuclear arms race which no one can win…

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In that dramatic scene on Calvary's hill three men were crucified… All three were crucified for the same crime-the crime of extremism.…

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If an American is concerned only about his nation, he will not be concerned about the peoples of Asia, Africa, or South…

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The supreme task is to organize and unite people so that their anger becomes a transforming force.

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Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe. And…

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Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness.

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What seems so necessary today may not even be desirable tomorrow.

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The Negro cannot win the respect of his oppressor by acquiescing; he merely increases the oppressor's arrogance and contempt.

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The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery's buses were poor and untutored; but they understood the essence…

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Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth,

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I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will…

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